Sentence examples for private auction from inspiring English sources

Most, however, are sold via private auction to a stable of about 20 different resellers.

Both Apollo and KSL originally bid $5 a share for the company during a private auction late last year, with the former coming out on top.

When the museum offered the car in a private auction last year, Mr. Kroplick won with a bid of $275,000.

The private auction house, owned by François Pinault, a French luxury-goods billionaire, sold four of the year's five most-expensive works and seven of the top ten.

This summer, "Slave Labour," a Banksy mural behind a discount shop in London, was sold at a private auction there for $1.1 million.

Savvis was the winning bidder in a private auction for the United States operations, which filed for bankruptcy protection last month.

The primary motivation for settling disputes in early, private auctions is money.

That's where the firm Innovative Auctions comes in: it holds private auctions to resolve these feuds.

Agency spokesmen say that prices at private auctions tend to be higher and the merchandise less reliable.

The diamond exchange also plans to hold quarterly private auctions of major diamonds from its suppliers, offered to investors by invitation.

Im surprised you didnt mention private auctions as a way of distributing disputed items after a death.